Fusegates are independent units held only by the gravity installed on the free spillway of existing dams in order to increase reservoir storage and/or discharge capacity. Increasing reservoir storage in many dams can partly sacrifice dam’s reliabilities. So considering the failure risk of a...

Simultaneous consideration of initial construction cost and failure risk in practical design of critical hydraulic structures is a long-standing problem in water resources planning and management. Despite extensive efforts to effectively tackle this problem during recent decades, the traditional...